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leisure time. In other words, this strategy suggests that when it
comes  to  your  relaxation,  don’t  default  to  whatever  catches
your  attention  at  the  moment,  but  instead  dedicate  some
advance  thinking  to  the  question  of  how  you  want  to  spend
your  “day  within  a  day.”  Addictive  websites  of  the  type
mentioned previously thrive in a vacuum: If you haven’t given
yourself  something  to  do  in  a  given  moment,  they’ll  always
beckon as an appealing option. If you instead fill this free time
with  something  of  more  quality,  their  grip  on  your  attention
will loosen.
It’s crucial, therefore, that you figure out in advance what
you’re  going  to  do  with  your  evenings  and  weekends  before
they begin. Structured hobbies provide good fodder for these
hours, as they generate specific actions with specific goals to
fill your time. A set program of reading, à la Bennett, where
you spend regular time each night making progress on a series
of  deliberately  chosen  books,  is  also  a  good  option,  as  is,  of
course,  exercise  or  the  enjoyment  of  good  (in-person)
company.
In my own life, for example, I manage to read a surprising
number of books in a typical year, given the demands on my
time  as  a  professor,  writer,  and  father  (on  average,  I’m
typically reading three to five books at a time). This is possible
because one of my favorite preplanned leisure activities after
my  kids’  bedtime  is  to  read  an  interesting  book.  As  a  result,
my  smartphone  and  computer,  and  the  distractions  they  can
offer,  typically  remain  neglected  between  the  end  of  the
workday and the next morning.
At this point you might worry that adding such structure to
your  relaxation  will  defeat  the  purpose  of  relaxing,  which
many  believe  requires  complete  freedom  from  plans  or
obligations. Won’t a structured evening leave you exhausted—
not  refreshed—the  next  day  at  work?  Bennett,  to  his  credit,
anticipated  this  complaint.  As  he  argues,  such  worries


misunderstand what energizes the human spirit:
What?  You  say  that  full  energy  given  to  those  sixteen
hours will lessen the value of the business eight? Not so.
On the contrary, it will assuredly increase the value of
the  business  eight.  One  of  the  chief  things  which  my
typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are
capable  of  a  continuous  hard  activity;  they  do  not  tire
like an arm or a leg. All they want is change—not rest,
except in sleep.
In my experience, this analysis is spot-on. If you give your
mind something meaningful to do throughout all your waking
hours,  you’ll  end  the  day  more  fulfilled,  and  begin  the  next
one more relaxed, than if you instead allow your mind to bathe
for hours in semiconscious and unstructured Web surfing.
To summarize, if you want to eliminate the addictive pull
of  entertainment  sites  on  your  time  and  attention,  give  your
brain  a  quality  alternative.  Not  only  will  this  preserve  your
ability to resist distraction and concentrate, but you might even
fulfill  Arnold  Bennett’s  ambitious  goal  of  experiencing,
perhaps  for  the  first  time,  what  it  means  to  live,  and  not  just
exist.


Rule #4
Drain the Shallows
In the summer of 2007, the software company 37signals (now called
Basecamp) launched an experiment: They shortened their workweek
from  five  days  to  four.  Their  employees  seemed  to  accomplish  the
same  amount  of  work  with  one  less  day,  so  they  made  this  change
permanent:  Every  year,  from  May  through  October,  37signals
employees  work  only  Monday  to  Thursday  (with  the  exception  of
customer  support,  which  still  operates  the  full  week).  As  company
cofounder  Jason  Fried  quipped  in  a  blog  post  about  the  decision:
“People should enjoy the weather in the summer.”
It  didn’t  take  long  before  the  grumbles  began  in  the  business
press. A few months after Fried announced his company’s decision to
make  four-day  weeks  permanent,  journalist  Tara  Weiss  wrote  a
critical piece for Forbes titled “Why a Four-Day Work Week Doesn’t
Work.” She summarized her problem with this strategy as follows:

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